Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers - Softcover

Mirante, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9745240508 ISBN 13: 9789745240506

Publisher: Orchid Press, 2006

Synopsis

This is a new memoir of the author's journeys among the brave indigenous peoples of some of Asia's most remote and violent regions.

About this title

About the Author:

Edith Mirante has roamed Southeast Asia for nearly two decades, collectinginformation on human rights and environmental issues. In 1986, shefounded Project Maje, which distributes material on Burma’s struggle forfreedom. She has investigated abuse and resistance in some of the mostremote corners of Burma’s frontier war zone.

The author of the acclaimed Burmese Looking Glass, Mirante has writtenchapters in several other books, as well as articles for encyclopedias, TheNew York Times, Asiaweek, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and Earth FirstJournal. She has testified on Burma before the US Congress, EuropeanTrade Commission, and the International Labor Organization. She wasinstrumental in organizing the campaign for corporate withdrawal fromBurma, of the world-wide Free Burma Coalition.

Review:

It’s the author’s no-frills passion for her subject (and) her wit and humour that make the book so readable. -- South China Morning Post, May 29, 2005

Mirante is no ordinary adventurer - outright exciting because she goes through one adventure after another. Read this book. -- The Irrawaddy Magazine, April 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchid Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9745240508
• ISBN 13: 9789745240506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200